Who makes meaning in a film - the director or the audience?

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…showed last 75 words of 989 total…ing is placed directly in front of him or not. Hitchcock also uses tight framing in this scene to give a claustrophobic feel. If he had widened the shot to include Marion, this would have included more height which might have meant empty space. However, at the beginning and end of the scene there is a long shot of the two characters to give us an idea of the distance (literally and metaphorically) between them.